ENO - Environment Online

National Board Of Education, Finland

ENO Programme has been one of Finnish virtual projects since the beginning 2000 and supported by national board of education. NBE has been one of the major donors.

UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme)

ENO Programme signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UNEP in February 2005. According to this agreement ENO and UNEP unite some activities like tree planting events and activities around UN's thematic days. ENO has a regular attendance in UNEP's TUNZA conferences for children. ENO's mascot Frank The Frog has also been featured in UNEP's Ozzy Ozone cartoons.

UNESCO

ENO works in parallerly with DESD (Decade of education for sustainable development) and promote same values, behaviours and knowledge. Many schools in UNESCO ASPnet network are also members in the ENO Programme. UNESCO will disseminate information about the ENO Programme, share information about ENO's activities through its networks and mention them on its DESD website

The University of Joensuu, Finland

The department of applied education has been our link to study and research since 2000. The latest (master's thesis) study was about "meta cognitions in ENO learning diaries" by Ms Kaisa Pihlainen. See an abstract here.

Studentum.fi helps students who are searching for information about education alternatives in Finland. Studentum.fi has a wide variety of different educational institutions as universities, universities of applied sciences, vocational schools, folk high schools, adult education, distance education, language courses and studies abroad. Searching for education on Studentum.fi makes it easy for you to compare different study options to see what best suits you. You can also request more information directly from the schools you are interested in. Good luck with finding your future education!

UPM, A Global Forests Products Group

UPM is a supporter of ENO 100 Million Trees 2017. See UPM's Forestlife that will be a part of ENO study material in 2009.

Green Star hotel is the official partner for annual ENO conferences in Finland. It is a brand new hotel concept that’s both affordable and environmentally friendly. The savings in energy consumption save the customer’s money too. Co-operation started in 2009.

ENO Africa is affiliated to Endangered Wildlife Trust. EWT is dedicated to conserving threatened species and ecosystems in southern Africa to the benefit of all people.

In 2007 and 2008 ENO made co-operation with SciFest Finland, organised by the university of Joensuu. SciFest Finland is a festival of science, technology and environment: This annual conference gathered over 6 000 visitors in 2008, most of international participants were from ENO schools around the world.

Global Footprint Network

The Global Footprint Network is committed to fostering a world where all people have the opportunity to live satisfying lives within the means of Earth's ecological capacity. We are dedicated to advancing the scientific rigor and practical application of the Ecological Footprint, a tool that quantifies human demand on nature, and nature's capacity to meet these demands. Created in 1993 by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, the Ecological Footprint is now in wide use by governments, communities, and businesses to monitor current ecological resource balances and to plan for the future.

ENO Programme was invited to join the Global Footprint Network as a participating partner. Ecological Footprint is one of regular themes in the ENO Programme.

The GLOBE Program is a worldwide, hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. It seeks to teach young students experimental skills using real experiments and equipment and collaboration with students in a global network of over a hundred other participating nations. GLOBE is an acronym for Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment.

Many GLOBE schools are ENO schools. GLOBE program gives important consultation and expertise to ENO programme.

World Water Monitoring Day™ (WWMD) is an international education and outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world by engaging citizens to conduct basic monitoring of their local water bodies. An easy-to-use test kit enables everyone from children to adults to sample local water bodies for a core set of water quality parameters including temperature, acidity (pH), clarity (turbidity) and dissolved oxygen (DO). Results are shared with participating communities around the globe through the WWMD Web site. The coordinators of WWMD, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the International Water Association (IWA) plan to expand participation to one million people in 100 countries by 2012.

ENO Programme started co-operation in August 2008 and will take part to World Water Monitoring Day this year and annually.

About the Jane Goodall Institute

Founded in 1977, the Jane Goodall Institute continues Dr. Goodall’s pioneering research of chimpanzee behavior—research that transformed scientific perceptions of the relationship between humans and animals. Today, the Institute is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. It also is widely recognized for establishing innovative community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa, and the Roots & Shoots education program, which has groups in almost 100 countries.

About Roots & Shoots

Founded in 1991 by Dr. Jane Goodall and a group of Tanzanian students, the Roots & Shoots program is about making positive change happen—for our communities, for animals and for the environment. With tens of thousands of young people in almost 100 countries, the Roots & Shoots network connects youth of all ages who share a desire to create a better world. Young people identify problems in their communities and take action. Through service projects, youth-led campaigns and an interactive website, Roots & Shoots members are making a difference across the globe.

ENO Programme does co-operation with Roots & Shoots especially in tree planting activities.

“Fundación GEO” comes from Mexico. Its main purpose is to create and implement communitarian projects focused to strengthen the patrimony, culture, human development and preservation of the environment. GEO has translated ENO activities in Spanish and promoted our material in Mexico. GEO will utilize ENO material for teaching courses in their Education For Sustainability Centre.

Tembea Youth Centre for Sustainable Development is a community based development organization based in Ugunja. Kenya. Their mission is enhancing the socio- economic capacity of communities through networking and collaboration so as to achieve self-reliance and sustainable livelihood & growth through Health, Environmental Conservation and Poverty Alleviation Program (HECPAP) at grass roots levels .
TYCforSD works also with schools in the area. They will introduce ENO activities to schools in Ugunja and Kenya and get them involved with them.

Miss Earth Foundation

Miss Earth is an annual international beauty pageant and the third largest beauty pageant in the planet. The delegates and winners give meaning and relevance to this beauty competition by promoting worthwhile environmental causes and getting actively involved in caring for and the preservation of Mother Earth .Co-operation with ENO started in 2006. Miss Earth delegates around the world participated ENO Tree Planting Day 2006. ENO Programme is one of the environmental partners of Miss Earth Foundation

ECO 4 The World

"The TV programme Eco 4 the World, is a partnership with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote Goal Seven of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals; namely, care for the environment and the need for sustainable development. The project will create environmental awareness around the world by focusing on positive environmental action, in a fun and innovative manner. The TV series is in a magazine format, showcasing stories from around the globe about real people and real projects. "

iEARN

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 20,000 schools in more than 115 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 1,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.

Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their countries and around the world.

ENO joined this network in 2002. iEARN and ENO have same kind of goals in learning: to foster cultural diversity and co-operation between schools in different countries

ENO Programme started as an umbrella project for NetD@ys 2000, an initiative by European Schoolnet. Since the beginning a lot of information has been shared. ENO Programme has participated many European Schoolnet's projects (NetDays, Spring Day, Green Week etc.). The latest co-operation is about twinning as ENO have been doing twinning for a couple of years and Europen Schoonet has an ongoing eTwinning Programme. Read more about co-operation here.

Eco-Schools is an international program of environmental and sustainable developmental education for schools. It aims to raise students’ awareness of environmental and related sustainable development issues through classroom study together with school and community action, and provides an integrated system for environmental management of schools based on an ISO 14001/EMAS approach. Many Eco-Schools are also participants in the ENO Programme.

Life-Link Friendship-Schools is an independent Non Governmental Organisation which aims to promote contact and cooperation between young people around the world and their schools, through active participation in shared projects, vital for our time (e.g. Environment, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Constructive Collaboration). The Life-Link philosophy is based on Natural and Social sciences and is neither politically nor religiously aligned. Life-Link is today a well recognized non-governmental organisation with international contacts in more than 60 countries worldwide.

Founded in 1953, UNESCO’s Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet), commonly referred to as UNESCO Associated Schools, is a global network of some 7 900 educational institutions in 176 countries (ranging from pre-schools and primary to secondary schools and teacher training institutions), who work in support of quality education in practice.
Many UNESCO ASPnet schools are also ENO schools.

World Links is a global non-profit organization whose mission is to improve educational outcomes, economic opportunities, and global understanding for youth through the use of information technology and new approaches to learning. World Links connects youth around the world in a global learning network, allowing them to share their knowledge, their perspectives, their hopes and their dreams with their peers. Through this network, youth develop skills in technology, entrepreneurship and collaboration, and teachers learn to integrate technology into learning for improved educational results. Many World Links schools are also ENO schools.

The Helsinki Conference 2005 was held 7-9 September 2005 in Helsinki. The aim of the event was to address the challenge of making ambitious targets of the global community a reality. The Helsinki Conference buildt on and assessed the work of the first phase of the Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy, a multi-stakeholder dialogue initiated by the Finnish and Tanzanian governments. High-ranking political decision-makers, distinguished researchers, civil society and business representatives, and heads of international organisations were invited to engage in action-oriented dialogue regarding global problems. At the Conference, proposals of the first phase of the Helsinki Process on improving global governance were presented in order to mobilise support and commitment for their advancement. The ultimate aim of the Conference was to lead to concrete actions towards more inclusive and equitable globalisation.

ENO Programme was invited to take part to Helsinki Conference. Read more about this co-operation here.